Karl Albrecht
Karl Albrecht
Karl Hans Albrecht was a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. He was for many years the richest person in Germany. As of February 2014, he was ranked as 21st-richest person in the world by Hurun Report...
change language
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
adventure among choices establish failure found human life lives living matter quite seems typical
The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
customers serving
If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.
two way advantage
There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.
resolution negotiation ends
Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
team eye organization
In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within the overall team if they hope to bring the special talents and resources to bear on the challenge of creating superior customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage in the eyes of its customers.
time philosophy suffering
The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.
long needs way
Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.
intelligent law organization
Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.
television fantasy made
Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.
organization creative brain
We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.
organization people rewards
If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.
paradigm hard ifs
Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.